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Europe’s largest green hydrogen plant makes first fertiliser deliveries
19/6/2024
News
Fertiliser producer Yara International is now making green hydrogen and ammonia from its recently commissioned 24 MW plant at Herøya Industrial Park, Norway. The first tonnes of fertilisers made from the low-carbon ammonia produced at the plant, claimed to be the largest such facility in Europe, have already been delivered to the Swedish Lantmännen partnership.
The green hydrogen is produced via electrolysis of water and using renewable energy, replacing natural gas as feedstock. Yara reports that the process has reduced CO2 emissions from the site by 41,000 t/y. The hydrogen is used to produce ammonia, which in turn is used to produce fertilisers and can also be used as shipping fuel. Ammonia is also an efficient energy and hydrogen carrier.
Hans Olav Raen, CEO of Yara Clean Ammonia, says: ‘Renewable ammonia is an important part of the decarbonisation puzzle; however, developing it at scale takes time. As the world is rapidly approaching 2030, we are also working to produce low-carbon ammonia with CCS to enable the hydrogen economy and develop the emerging markets for low-emission ammonia.’
As for that latter project, in 2023 Yara signed a binding CO2 transport and storage agreement with Northern Lights, an Equinor, Shell and TotalEnergies joint venture CCS project, reported at the time to be the world’s first cross-border CCS agreement. Yara plans to capture some 800,000 tonnes of CO2 from its Sluiskil ammonia and fertiliser plant in the Netherlands, where it will be compressed and liquefied before being transported by ship and then permanently stored under the seabed on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).
TotalEnergies and Air Products sign green hydrogen delivery agreement
In related news, Air Products has signed a 15-year agreement for the supply of 70,000 t/y of green hydrogen to TotalEnergies, starting in 2030. TotalEnergies is looking to secure the supply of 500,000 t/y of green hydrogen in total to decarbonise its refineries in Europe.
According to the two companies, the long-term supply deal will avoid the emissions of around 700,000 t/y of CO2.
In November 2023, Air Products unveiled plans to build, own and operate a state-of-the-art carbon capture and treatment facility at its existing hydrogen production plant in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, which will be the largest blue hydrogen plant in Europe once operational.
